Gary Snyder

Author of Turtle Island

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About the Author

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, California on May 8, 1930. He received a B.A. in anthropology at Reed College in 1951. Between working as a logger, a trail-crew member, and a seaman on a Pacific tanker, he was associated with Beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and studied in show more a Zen monastery in Japan. He wrote numerous books of poetry and prose including Danger on Peaks, Mountains and Rivers Without End, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, The Practice of the Wild, Regarding Wave, and Myths and Texts. He received an American Book Award for Axe Handles and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Turtle Island. He has also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. In 2012, he received the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Gary Snyder

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Turtle Island (1974) — Author — 739 copies

The Practice of the Wild (1990) 586 copies

Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) 386 copies

No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992) 345 copies

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1958) 325 copies

The Back Country (1968) 304 copies

Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries (1969) 285 copies

The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations (1999) 248 copies

A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (1995) 190 copies

Danger on Peaks (2005) 185 copies

Axe Handles: Poems (1983) 179 copies

Regarding Wave (1970) 148 copies

Myths and Texts (1960) 147 copies

The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979 (1980) 133 copies

Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 (1988) 133 copies

Back on the Fire: Essays (2007) — Author — 114 copies

The Old Ways (1611) 97 copies

The High Sierra of California (1899) 82 copies

Six sections from Mountains and rivers without end, plus one (Four Seasons Foundation. Writing, 9) (1965) 78 copies

The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991 (2008) 73 copies

He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth (1979) 72 copies

The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild (2010) 66 copies

This Present Moment: New Poems (2015) 62 copies

Passage through India (1983) 46 copies

Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places (2014) 40 copies

Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (loa #357) (Library of America, 357) (2022) 39 copies

On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen (1977) 32 copies

The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia (2016) 29 copies

Cold Mountain Poems (1965) — Translator — 28 copies

Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition (2007) 27 copies

'Beat' Poets (1961) — Contributor — 24 copies

Look Out: A Selection of Writings (New Directions Bibelots) (2002) 23 copies

The fudo trilogy: Spel against demons: Smokey the Bear sutra. The California water plan (1973) 17 copies

A Range of Poems (1966) 16 copies

Songs for Gaia (1979) — Author — 12 copies

Introduction to MultiSim for the DC/AC Course (2009) 10 copies

Tawny Grammar: Essays (Counterpoints Series) (2019) 10 copies

La práctica de lo salvaje (2014) 10 copies

Good, Wild, Sacred (1984) 9 copies

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations (2022) 7 copies

La mente salvaje, poemas y ensayos (2000) 7 copies

Big Table 4, The New American Poets (1960) 5 copies

Manzanita (1971) 5 copies

In Transit: The Gary Snyder Issue 4 copies

Riprap (1959) 4 copies

Neo paganesimo (1999) — Author — 3 copies

The Museum of Non-objective Painting: American Abstract Art (1996) 3 copies

Problem Solving Guide for DC/AC (2011) 3 copies

Premier Chant du Chaman (1992) 3 copies

Caterpillar 19: Spring 1972 — Contributor — 3 copies

Nanao Knows 2 copies

1937: American Abstract Art (sept. 8 - Oct. 28 1995) (1995) 2 copies

Tidlige dikt (2015) 2 copies

North Pacific lands & waters: A further Six sections (1993) 2 copies

Hilla Rebay and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (2005) 2 copies

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century (Unabridged Audio Edition/New Dimensions Radio Presentation) 2 copies

This Present Moment 2 copies

Manual Completo do Linux: Guia do Administrador (2007) 2 copies

Three on community (1996) 2 copies

Re-habitar: ensaios e poemas 2 copies

ZERO Vol. 5 (1981) 2 copies

The Life of Creative Translation (2013) 1 copy

Range of Poems 1 copy

El eterno caminar de las montañas azules 1 copy

惑星の未来を想像する者たちへ(わくせいのみらいをそうぞうするものたちへ/wakusei no… (2000) 1 copy

Voices of Change 1 copy

Earth geography booklet 1 copy

Snyder~ Far from Here: Gary Snyder 1 copy

Alcheringa. Ethnopoetics. Volume One. Number One. Autumn 1970. — Co-Editor — 1 copy

Four changes 1 copy

Buddhist Anarchism 1 copy

Özgürlügün Görgüsü (2017) 1 copy

10 Volumes of Gary Snyder 1 copy

Icy Mountains Constantly Walking: For Seamus Heany [i.e. Heaney] 1 copy

The Practice of the Wild - Documentary Film (2010) — Featured — 1 copy

Hop, Skip and Jump 1 copy

Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints by Gary Snyder (2013-09-15) (1742) 1 copy

Les Muntanyes són la teva ment (2013) 1 copy

The Gary Snyder Reader Vol. II: Poetry and Translations 1 copy

The Smokey the Bear Sutra {short story} 1 copy

Aus der Spur (2001) 1 copy

Dlaczego kierowcy ciężarówek z drewnem wstają wcześniej niż adepci Zen : wiersze wybrane (2013) 1 copy

Arriere-Pays (l') Suivi de l'Amerique Ile Tor (2004) 1 copy

North Beach 1 copy

For All 1 copy

Spel Against Demons 1 copy

Sharkmeat 1 copy

Tingens ådring (1975) 1 copy

Song to the Raw Material 1 copy

Ri-abitare nel grande flusso 1 copy

Mouse & Lion 1 copy

Dooby Lane: Also Known as Guru Road, A Testament Inscribed in Stone Tablets by DeWayne Williams (2016) 1 copy

Landschaften des Bewussteins. Gespräche, Reden (1984) 1 copy

Zemědům : technické poznámky & otázky pro dharmové revolucionáře (2010) 1 copy

Go Round 1 copy

This Is Our Body (1989) 1 copy

Two Logging Songs 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Contributor — 1,447 copies

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 901 copies

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 817 copies

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor — 736 copies

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contributor — 582 copies

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contributor — 405 copies

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 383 copies

Contemporary American Poetry (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 380 copies

The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contributor — 319 copies

The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960) — Contributor — 313 copies

For a Future to Be Possible (1993) — Contributor — 243 copies

Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contributor — 199 copies

Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings (1988) — Contributor — 191 copies

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated (1987) — Translator — 175 copies

The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 172 copies

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributor — 166 copies

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 160 copies

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (1994) — Contributor — 143 copies

The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 127 copies

Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributor — 100 copies

The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (2003) — Translator — 97 copies

The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contributor — 85 copies

The Best American Poetry 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 71 copies

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributor — 66 copies

The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim (1991) — Foreword — 53 copies

The Wounded Planet (1973) — Contributor — 48 copies

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 47 copies

The divine woman : dragon ladies and rain maidens in T'ang literature (1537) — Foreword, some editions — 47 copies

Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu (1979) — Foreword — 39 copies

In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Contributor — 35 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contributor — 32 copies

The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo" (2018) — Contributor, some editions — 31 copies

Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contributor — 30 copies

About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contributor — 26 copies

Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributor — 17 copies

New American Review 8 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies

EVERGREEN REVIEW: VOL. 3, NO. 9: SUMMER 1959 (1959) — Contributor — 11 copies

New American Review 15 (1972) — Contributor — 8 copies

Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology of American Farm Poems (1991) — Contributor — 7 copies

Unexpected Manna (1978) — Introduction — 7 copies

Some Poems, Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry since 1945 (1971) — Contributor — 7 copies

A Zen Life (2006) — Interviewee — 6 copies

Caterpillar 3/4 (1971) — Contributor — 5 copies

Six San Francisco Poets (1969) — Contributor — 4 copies

THE SEVENTIES. Number 1. Spring 1972 (1972) — Contributor — 4 copies

New Directions in Prose and Poetry 35 (1977) — Contributor — 3 copies

Turtle, Bear and Wolf (1976) — Preface — 3 copies

Coyote's Journal No 9. (1971) — Contributor — 2 copies

12 Poets & 1 Painter (1964) — Contributor — 2 copies

Sugar, alcohol, & meat [sound recording] (1980) — Contributor — 2 copies

Foot #2 — Contributor — 2 copies

Kayak 12 — Contributor — 1 copy

Niagara Frontier Review, Spring-Summer 1965 — Contributor — 1 copy

Wild Dog #17 — Contributor — 1 copy

River Styx 4: American Mythmaking (1979) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Snyder, Gary
Legal name: Snyder, Gary Sherman
Birthdate: 1930-05-08
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Places of residence: North San Juan, Nevada County, California, USA
Kyoto, Japan
Portland, Oregon, USA
Education: Reed College (BA|1951)
Indiana University
University of California, Berkeley
American Academy of Asian Studies
Occupations: poet
essayist
professor
translator
seaman
carpenter (show all 7)
logger
Relationships: Uehara, Masa (former wife)
Snyder, Kai (son)
Snyder, Gen (son)
Kyger, Joanne (former wife)
Organizations: University of California, Davis
Awards and honors: Pulitzer Prize (1975)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1987)
American Book Award (1984)
Bollingen Prize (1997)
Shelley Memorial Award (1986)
Robert Kirsch Award (1996) (show all 15)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1984)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1966)
Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize (2004)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2008)
Wallace Stevens Award (2012)
Levinson Prize (1968)
John Hay Award for Nature Writing (1997)
Buddhism Transmission Award (1998)
Bess Holkin Prize (1964)

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The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder by Gary Snyder

We humans are part of nature. We are part of the wild. Wilderness is different, and hard to find. Snyder believes a sense of place and a feeling towards home is important.

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mykl-s | 4 other reviews | May 23, 2023 |

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

After writing my master's thesis on deep ecology, I was fed up with all that 'eco-lala' for a while - no matter how interesting, I had had enough of all that capitalizing Nature and the true Self ans whatnot. I never had the chance to read Snyder, whose work was referenced often in the writings of Naess and Devall. Having sort of dismissed him as a oh-how-harmonious-nature-is kind of poet, I encountered him again now years later when I have picked up zen meditation again, and I realize that I have done him wrong. Snyder's poems speak to us in times of climate change, they have outlived the hippie epoch and hold up still, inspiring us to engage in the real work, with enough hands-on qualities to invite us to stay with the trouble. Good stuff.… (more)

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Boreque | 2 other reviews | Dec 26, 2022 |

On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary… by Gary Snyder

Transcription of a radio panel from 1964, back when the Beats had hope to turn the worm. Good to read & feel regardless, these 58 years later as Snyder is published by the Library of America.

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kcshankd | Jul 20, 2022 |